Search Results: Titles starting with R from MFLIBRA Antique Books

Author: Cardanus Rider. Title: RIDER'S BRITISH MERLIN: For the Year of Our Lord 1812 being the Bissextile or Leap Year. Adorned with many delightful and useful Verities fitting all Capacities in the Islands of Great Britain's Monarchy. With Notes of Husbandry, Fairs, Marts, and Tables for many necessary Uses. Publishers: London, Printed for the company of Stationers, by Nichols and Son, 1812. First edition. Language: Text in English. Size: 5.5 " X 3.5 ". Pages: 60 pages of text and many blank pages inserted throughout. Binding: Attractive, beautiful, and very good original dark red morocco leather binding finely bound with working claps (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. All edges gilt. Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, red ink stamp on the title page - as shown, some pencil annotations on 2-3 blank pages - as shown). ***** The book: Rare and attractive first edition of this Almanack titled Rider's British Merlin.… Read More

Author: Jack Kerouac.Title: RIMBAUD.Publisher: San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1960. First edition, First printing with 35c price. (Charters A14). One of the 2,000 scarce printed copies.Language: Text in English.Size: 5 " X 5 ".Pages: 1 fold page.Binding: Attractive and very good, near fine folded broadside (25 x 5 inches) printed in black on yellow paper, recto and verso (edges and corners fine - as shown) under a removable protective mylar cover.Content: Very good, near fine content (bright, tight, and clean - as shown).
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The book: Scarce remaining copy in a beautiful condition of this wonderful 202 line poem by Jack Kerouac about the symbolist French poet Arthur Rimbaud printed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights in a fold-out format. It first appeared in Yugen no. 6 earlier in the same year.

Author: Unknown.Title: Réglement de la Confrerie de l'Adoration Perpétuelle du S. Sacrement et de la Bonne Mort. Erigée dans l'Eglise Paroissiale de Ville-Marie, en l'Isle de Montréal, en Canada. Nouvelle Edition...Language: Text in French.Publisher: Montréal, F. Mesplet & C. Berger, 1776. Casey, Catalogue of Pamphlets 1536; Dionne 18; Lande, Rare Canadiana 153 ("considered the first Canadian imprint in Montreal"); Tremaine 231. An earlier edition of this work is believed to have been prepared by Mesplet in Philadelphia. He had emigrated to America on the advice of Franklin, and had moved from Philadelphia to Montreal in 1776 when commissioned by the Continental Congress to accompany Franklin, Chase and Carroll for the purpose of establishing a French press.Size: 5.5 "X 4 ".Pages: 40 pages.Binding: Attractive and good original boards, covered in figured wallpaper (spine worn but hinges still tight, overall worn and scuffed - as shown) in a quarter morocco leather cover with a nice ex-libris of… Read More

Author: Poems by Rose Fyleman and Pictures by Hilda T. Miller. Title: The Rose Fyleman Fairy Book.Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company, 1923. First US Edition.Size: 9.5" X 7.5".Pages: xiv-103 pages.Binding: Attractive and very good original orange variant decorated full-cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown).Illustrations: Complete with the 12 beautiful mounted colored fairy plates by Hilda T. Miller and some black and white in-text illustrations.
Estimate: (Scarce with no or few other copies in this orange variant available for sale worldwide).
The book: A beautiful first US edition of "The Rose Fyleman Fairy Book," published in 1923 by the George H. Doran Company, New York. This enchanting collection of fairy tales is made all the more special by the inclusion of twelve beautiful, mounted colored fairy plates by Hilda T.… Read More

Author: Costello, Louise Stuart. (illustrator, Gardner, Frederick).Title: The Rose Garden of Persia.Publisher: No place, T.N. Foulis Publishers, no date (circa 1913). First thus: First Foulis edition.Language: Text in English.Size: 8" X 5".Pages: 188 pages.Binding: Attractive and very good original decorated full-cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) in a rare very good dust jacket under a protective removable mylar cover.Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, beautiful ex-libris of Margaret Kearsley on the first endpaper - as shown).Illustrations: Complete with 4 beautiful tipped-in color plates and 12 illuminated pages by Frederick Gardner.
The book: "The Rose Garden of Persia" by Louisa Stuart Costello is a beautifully presented collection of Persian poetry, translated and compiled by Costello, a noted 19th-century poet, novelist, and artist. This edition, published around 1913 by T.N. Foulis, is particularly prized for its aesthetic presentation… Read More